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eHealth User Platform

PS5: The Patient's and Consumers Perspective

When: 16 March, 11:30
Location: Room CCIB

Presented by:

Dr Stephan SchugMD MPHChief Medical OfficerEHTEL Belgium

Nicola BedlingtonExecutive DirectorEuropean Patients' Forum

Albert JovellDirector General Fundació Biblioteca Josep Laporte

Artur FurtadoProject and Policy Officer European Commission Belgium

Consumers and Patients are offered more freedom and choices when seeking health education and health services in Europe. They can use new eHealth services when in need of healthcare in another member state. Cross-border eHealth services are high on the political agenda. Can the aims of patient empowerment and person centred care be achieved? What is the reality of patient choice and how is this reflected in the political processes on the EU level? How will the rulings of the European Court of Justice influence the use of healthcare in Europe?

PS10: IT Solutions to Support Quality of Care: Improving Decisions and Learning at the Point of Care

When: 16 March, 14:00
Location: Room CCIB

Presented by:

Karl StroetmannSenior Research FellowEmpirica Communication & Technology ResearchGermany

Prof Antoine GeissbuehlerMD, FACMIProfessor and Chairman - Division of Medical Informatics Geneva University HospitalsSwitzerland

Mike WatsonMedical Director National Health Service ScotlandUnited Kingdom

Prof Kendall HoMD FRCPCDirector UBC Faculty of MedicineCanada

This session explores the strategic roles information technologies and health informatics can play in aiding health professionals and hospital decision makers in their practices and continuing professional development (CPD) towards safe, quality and efficient healthcare delivery. It will stimulate knowledge exchange amongst policy makers, health organisation administrators and health professional leaders by focusing on concrete ways to implement CPD concepts into practice towards health system improvement.

PS15: Decision support for end-users: is it really working?

When: 16 March, 17:15
Location: Room CCIB

Presented by:

Jos DevliesMedical Director EuroRecBelgium

Silviu BragaR&D Director Medicognos SABelgium

Blackford MiddletonMD,MPH,MSc.Corporate Director, Clinical Informatics Research and DevelopmentPartners HealthcareUSA

Matthias LeuVice PresidentCompuGROUP Holding AGGermany

The exponential growth in medical knowledge requires increasingly smart healthcare process support, monitoring and alerts as well as clinical decision support. Patient and process data, medical knowledge and clinical experience need to be understandable by computers, allow them to interact with each other as well as with caretakers. There is a need to build a comprehensive "info-structure". This session will focus on knowledge and process modelling, natural language processing, ontologies, archetypes, detailed clinical modelling as promising tools to increase semantic interoperability.

PS20: Information to bridge the gaps in continuity of care!

When: 17 March, 09:15
Location: Room CCIB

Presented by:

John MantasVice PresidentEFMI

Jacob HofdijkEFMI PresidentMinistry of HealthThe Netherlands

Patrick WeberChair of Nursing InformaticsEFMIZwitzerland

Evert Jan HoijtinkVice-Chairman OIZOIZ, Dutch Branch Organisation for Health IT SuppliersThe Netherlands

This session will focus on the impact of health policy on disease management. Specifically, how can nationally (and potentially European) clinically accepted standards and pathways be implemented as guiding principles. The approach includes prevention and management chronic disease. The presenters will offer their perspectives on how disease management can change both the involvement of citizens in their care and collaboration between health care providers.

PS25: Semantic Interoperability Tools To Improve Clinical Research

When: 17 March, 13:30
Location: Room CCIB

Presented by:
Georges De MoorProfessorEuroRecBelgium	Dipak KalraUniversity College LondonUnited Kingdom	Mats SundgrenAstra ZenecaSweden

EuroRec is upgrading its current certification policy and quality assessment criteria. This is a natural evolution when taking into account new trends in eHealth such as the issue of semantic interoperability, the emergence of personal health records etc. "Content-" and not only "Business Function-" related criteria have become core in the interoperability discussion. The session will also address the secondary use of EHR data for clinical research as illustration.

PS30: From Servers to Medical Devices

When: 17 March, 17:00
Location: Room CCIB

Presented by:

Elisabethann WrightHogan & Hartson LLPBelgium

Petra WilsonDirector, Connected Health, Internet Business Solutions GroupCisco Systems

Prof.Dr.med. Björn BergDirector of Information Technology and Medical EngineeringUniversity Hospital HeidelbergGermany

Anne-Sophie BriccaSenior Legal Counsel CaridianBCT Europe

The growing sophistication of healthcare-related technology has given rise to increased debate as to the classification of a variety of devices and the criteria on which such classification should be based. Our panellists will discuss emerging regulatory and legal challenges such as the recent modifications to the Medical Device Directive. The implications of the proposed Recast of the existing legislation and the advantages and disadvantages of a single regulation governing all medical devices will also be discussed.

PS35: Models for optimal use of resources

When: 18 March, 09:30
Location: Room CCIB

Presented by:

Beatrice Falise-MiratDeputy DirectorANAP France

Manuel Perez ValinaCIO Hospital General Universitario Gregorio MarañönSpain

Sophie DumasRenault

Prof Antoine GeissbuehlerMD, FACMIProfessor and Chairman - Division of Medical Informatics Geneva University HospitalsSwitzerland

Delivering healthcare requires the use of scarce or limited resources such as the time of clinicians, utilization of space and medical equipment and or consumables. A lot of progress has been made in the industry (and some services like airlines) to maximise the use of resources via production models and mathematical optimisation which lead to huge benefits, savings and quality improvements. Is it a feasible approach in the healthcare sector? Can we use the DRG/HRG approach to identify specific pathways and model the activity and the cost linked to these pathways?